RAID Array Woes

I have recently bought a 4 disk- eSATA II RAID ARRay drive. Using a PCI-X 4
channel eSATA board I have connecte dteh drive, which is recognized, and used
the F4 key upon boot to turn the four 500 GB Drive sinto two RAID 0 Array
disks (931 GB each) . However, when I go into Disk Manager to Format the two
drives and assign them letters (I converted the two into Dynamic Disks) the
format consistently fails. What could be cauing this? I also had them format
as a simple volume. Please advise on any potential bumps in the road.
--
Brad S.

You have 2 RAID 0 sets with 2 SATA hds being the same brand & size,you
configured the sets in the post BIOS RAID utility,what is disk manager,or do
you mean diskmgmt.msc in XP.....Either way,make sure the BIOS is set for
RAID (by default from the mfg they are not),install xp cd,boot to xp cd (use
the F6 option to install drivers for the RAID/SATA controller),go to
recovery,
press enter for password,select 1 For C: If prompted,or simply typeiskPart
In DiskPart youre 2 RAID sets will show,create a partition for both,press ESC
key,type:FORMAT C: /FS:ntfs C: being 1 of the RAID sets,type:EXIT When
thru...

"Brad" wrote:

I have recently bought a 4 disk- eSATA II RAID ARRay drive. Using a PCI-X 4
channel eSATA board I have connecte dteh drive, which is recognized, and used
the F4 key upon boot to turn the four 500 GB Drive sinto two RAID 0 Array
disks (931 GB each) . However, when I go into Disk Manager to Format the two
drives and assign them letters (I converted the two into Dynamic Disks) the
format consistently fails. What could be cauing this? I also had them format
as a simple volume. Please advise on any potential bumps in the road.
--
Brad S.